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NOTE: The purpose of my post is not to debate whether stray dogs are a menace, or whether people should be scared, or whether the right thing to do is to immunize them or kill them. The purpose is to highlight how some organizations should not function. The fact is: Even non-profits are organizations. And…

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Elephants can certainly morph into horses and pigs in animation software, but the problem was: this was not animation software! In a software firm where I worked, it was mandatory for every employee to enter daily time sheets in an online system, with each activity rounded off to the nearest half-hour. The activities were specific…

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My boss, Ashok [name changed], opened up a list of leads. He said, “Nandita, your uncle is a consultant to the XYZ group, and we would like to approach them so we can give them a demo of our workflow solutions. Cold-calling hasn’t helped; now that you know someone there, please fix up an appointment…

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[Note: I have quoted everyone verbatim.] . Do you need analysis and logic to write software? Many years ago, I was interviewed for a software developer’s job at a firm in Bangalore. The interviewer asked me why, with my degree in Architecture, I got into software programming. I explained that I was always fond of…

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Life is never black and white, and hiring is no exception. Reference checking is particularly tricky; it is one of those things that must be done; yet there is no guarantee it will make the recruiter any wiser. Many years ago, at my dad’s workplace, they interviewed a woman for a secretary’s post. She was…

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There are, of course, many ways and contexts in which we can define the word integrity. The most succinct and elegant one I heard was “Doing the right thing even if nobody is looking”. This explains why we do not jump a red light in the middle of the night, even if we know there…

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Even if you’re not an auditor, please do not get put off by the title — it may help you understand that there are endless devious paths to auditing and accounting frauds — and you can wonder if you know any auditors like this! If you’re a good auditor, you already know this, so you can…

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